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Vocabulary 4
Term | Definition |
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Abscond | To run off and hide. |
Access | Approach or admittance to places, persons, things; and increase; to get at, obtain. |
Anarchy | A lack of government and law; confusion. |
Arduous | Hard to do, requiring much effort. |
Auspicious | Favorable; fortunate. |
Daunt | To overcome with fear, intimidate; to dishearten, discourage. |
Disentangle | To free from tangles or complications. |
Fated | Determined in advance by destiny or fortune. |
Hoodwink | To mislead by a trick, swindle. |
Inanimate | Not having life; without energy or spirit. |
Incinerate | To burn to ashes. |
Intrepid | Very brave, fearless, unshakable. |
Larceny | Theft |
Pilant | Bending readily; easily influenced. |
Pompous | Overly self-important and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious. |
Precipice | A very steep cliff; the brink or edge of disaster. |
Prototype | An original model on which later versions are patented. |
Rectify | To make right, correct. |
Reprieve | A temporary relief or delay; to grant a postponement. |
Revile | To attack with word, call bad names. |